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Estonian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *meiden, the genitive of Proto-Finnic *mek, which has become the nominative.

Pronoun

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meie (short form me)

  1. we

Declension

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Declension of meie
1st person singular plural
long short long short
nominative mina ma meie me
genitive minu mu meie me
partitive mind meid
illative minusse musse meisse
inessive minus mus meis
elative minust must meist
allative minule mulle meile
adessive minul mul meil
ablative minult mult meilt
translative minuks meieks meiks
terminative minuni meieni
essive minuna meiena
abessive minuta meieta
comitative minuga muga meiega

See also

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Estonian personal pronouns
singular plural
long short long short
1st person mina ma meie me
2nd person familiar sina sa teie te
polite Teie Te
3rd person animate tema ta nemad nad
inanimate see need

Hunsrik

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Verb

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meie

  1. Alternative form of meue

Latin

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Verb

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mēie

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of mēiō

Middle High German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    From Old High German meio, borrowed from Latin Maius, from Maia.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈmɛi̯ə/

    Noun

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    meie m

    1. May

    Declension

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    Descendants

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    • Alemannic German: Mai
    • Bavarian: Moa
    • German: Mai
    • Kölsch: Meij
    • Luxembourgish: Mee
    • Pennsylvania German: Moin
    • Vilamovian: maj
    • Yiddish: מײַ (may)

    See also

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    References

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    • Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “MEIE, MEIGE”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
    • "meie" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

    Portuguese

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    Verb

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    meie

    1. inflection of mear:
      1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
      2. third-person singular imperative

    West Frisian

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    Etymology

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    From Old Frisian muga, from Proto-West Germanic *magan, from Proto-Germanic *maganą, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(me)mógʰe.

    Pronunciation

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    Verb

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    meie

    1. may, can, to be allowed to
    2. to like, to find nice

    Inflection

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    Strong class 1
    infinitive meie
    3rd singular past mocht
    past participle mocht
    infinitive meie
    long infinitive meien
    gerund meien n
    auxiliary hawwe
    indicative present tense past tense
    1st singular mei mocht
    2nd singular meist mochtst
    3rd singular meit mocht
    plural meie mochten
    imperative mei
    participles meiend mocht

    Further reading

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    • meie (II)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011